Aquinas at prayer : the Bible, mysticism and poetry /
Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013
London : Bloomsbury, 2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Aquinas: man of prayer. The interior life of a 'mystic on campus'
- Four prayers: the influence of Humbert of Romans
- Part 2. Prayer considered: soundings in the biblical commentaries. Aquinas as exegete
- Prayer in practice: Aquinas on St Paul
- Praying in time of need: Aquinas on the Psalms
- Part 3. Poet of the eucharist: the hymns and canticles of Aquinas. A poet in the making
- 'Corpus Christi': authorship and history of composition
- Aquinas on poetry and theology
- The individual hymns and canticles
- Adoro te devote: the finest prayer of Aquinas